Leaving the PCA

FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS
volume 19, number 25, June 11, 2020

“Depart, depart, go out from there, touch nothing unclean; go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves. . .” -Isaiah 52:11

My wife and I became members of the Presbyterian Church in America in 1976 when we had the privilege of working on the staff of First Presbyterian Church, Macon, Georgia under the great preacher and pastor James Baird. I was ordained in the PCA upon my graduation from Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi in 1981. I have loved the PCA and considered it a wonderful privilege to serve our Lord there for well over forty years. I must now, however, leave the PCA.

This decision does not come lightly. Why am I leaving? I believe the PCA has for many years been guilty of accommodation to our culture which, in turn, has caused a series of…